Cost of Living9:07Why meetings are often mind-numbing time sucks
Anyone who has worked an office job has felt it. You’re an hour into a meeting and you can’t help but think, “why am I here?” Or, “could this meeting have been an email?”
But organizational psychologist Steven Rogelberg says increasing productivity is more about doing meetings better, rather than eliminating them entirely.
“The fundamental problem with meetings is bad meetings, wasted time in meetings — but meetings in and of themselves, they’re not inherently the problem,” Rogelberg, a professor at the University of North Carolina, told Cost Of Living.
“Meetings are an evolution in
